Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect – Remote, Anywhere in Canada - 0003BF

Posting Date: Sep 28, 2021, 4:25:32 PM

Primary Location: Alberta-Calgary

Job Type: Permanent

Schedule: Full-time

EDC is Canada’s export credit agency, offering information, knowledge and innovative commercial solutions to help Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. We take on risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.

When you join our team, you’ll be helping Canadian companies bring their vision, passion and innovation to the global marketplace. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian companies and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you’ll know that you’re making a difference every day—for companies, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Year after year, EDC has been recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer.

Team & Job Overview

We have an opportunity for a results-focused individual with strong interpersonal, influencing, and strategic thinking skills to enable the transition of EDC business objectives & related requirements into industry standard, best practice enterprise aligned technology solutions. This role will report into the Manager, Data Technologies, Entreprise Digital Platform.

In addition to the ability to quickly understand business context, business applications and required business outcomes, the solution architect’s technical expertise is broad and covers the data platform, application and technology architecture domains with experience in many areas including: data storage technologies, enterprise information modeling and architecture, data quality management, metadata management, master data management, data integration, enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence, data visualization, operational reporting and ETL frameworks, Integration, API, Portals, Content Management, Web Content Management, ERPs, Workflow, Digital Design, Customer/User Experience, Security and Single Sign-On. Solution architects will be a key stakeholder for the realization of EDC’s Enterprise Digital Platform.

The solutions architect’s role is to design digital platforms to realize given business outcomes in the context provided by the Enterprise Architecture team. In addition, this role provides support and oversight to ensure the solution is implemented. In order to do this the solutions architect will require the ability to operate in and across multiple business & technology areas including Line of Business, Finance, Legal, ATIP, Procurement, Security, Infrastructure, Partners, Vendor and Delivery Teams. The role includes identifying gaps between current state technology architecture and what is required to execute on EDC Digital enabled Business Strategies and ensuring solutions are planned to fill these gaps.

The Solutions Architect may supervise direct and indirect staff on the breadth of solution architecture and strategic planning disciplines and may mentor business and technical teams in application architecture disciplines. The role functions in a fluid environment of changing business priorities, requirements and improvements to stay current with the technology.

Responsibilities

• Design the overall technological architecture of the product
• Partners with the Tech Lead to guide the implementation of software engineering practices for higher code quality
• Develops architectural standards, principles, practices, and architectural templates
• Problem solves architecture questions with the team to ensure consistent and sound solutioning
• Identifies and removes technical impediments by being hands on and engaging in coding to help the team to develop the products
• Ensure technical considerations are communicated, and implementation conforms with design, long-term objectives, and enterprise architecture by coaching software engineers and by building reusable and scalable components
• Mentors and coaches the technical team, specifically with code reviews
• Work with Product Owner and Tech Lead to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack
• Support product and delivery teams to ensure designed solutions are developed and deployed to meet objectives
• Constantly looking for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo
• Ensures consistency in architecture and engineering approaches between their team and others by frequently engaging the Enterprise Architect

Screening Criteria

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
• 7+ years of experience delivering IT solutions or as a Solution Architect
• Experience in Agile Development, with specific Solution Architect (or similar) experience preferred
• Understanding of data storage technologies, data late architecture
• Deep technical knowledge of SQL databases, Oracle Data Appliances, building data pipelines
• Experience installing, managing and upgrading data platform technologies: databases, ETL tools, reporting tools
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to resolve problems and make decisions
• Deep technical knowledge; architecture and development patterns and practices; how to realize non-functional qualities in a design
• Understands relationship between Product Owner, Scrum Master, and rest of technical team
• Experience managing technical priorities within the backlog
• Strong communication skills with ability align organization on complex technical decisions
• Active coach and mentor whose goal is to grow and maximize the team’s potential

Asset

• Familiarity with or experience in Design Ops practices
• Bilingual in both official languages (French and English)

Salary Range

• $87,300 - $131,000, plus performance-based incentive

Location

• For this position, EDC is recruiting top talent across Canada. We offer full flexibility to work remotely during and after the pandemic.

How to apply

Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.Application deadline on www.edc.ca/careers : Oct 22, 2021, 10:59:00 PM EDC is committed to employment equity and actively encourages applications from women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and visible minorities.Candidates must meet the requisite government security screening requirements.